By ISWAN In response to the second wave of COVID-19 in India, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has launched a ‘Vaccination Drive for Indian Seafarers’ in collaboration with Narayana Health and the Medica Group of … [Read more...]
NSW officials and maritime sector meet to tackle COVID
After 10 months of the COVID-19 crisis and plenty of uncertainty over the management of maritime workers and seafarers, medical care, seafarer crew changes and access to medical care, real consultation started yesterday. NSW public health … [Read more...]
New crew-change policy is neat, plausible… and wrong
Shipping Australia is very concerned about the ongoing crisis caused by a lack of crew changes. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped at sea and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting (without pay) to go to sea. It is a humanitarian … [Read more...]
Regional WA crew changes now virtually impossible
Western Australia's almost complete re-write of its crew change rules earlier this week now means it is almost impossible to carry out a crew change anywhere in WA except Perth. And even there, it is not easy. Crew changes now really only possible … [Read more...]
Domestic shippers should look to coastal shipping to ease road and rail freight bottlenecks
Coastal shipping could provide relief to the freight congestion caused by onerous and confusing state COVID testing and self-isolation rules for truck drivers and transport workers. Some container shipping lines already carry domestic freight … [Read more...]